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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoNeither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization | Verso Books2024-01-15T01:48:50+00:00
https://www.versobooks.com/products/772-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal
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https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-much-discomfort-is-the-whole-world-worth/
robertogrecoNot everyone we work with on a particular issue has to have deep ideological alignment with us. A skilled organizer should be able to work with people who aren’t of their own choosing, including people they don’t like. It’s really as simple as being attacked by fascist police in the streets. Once the attack begins, there are two sides: armed police inflicting violence and everyone else. We need to be able to see each other in those terms, reeling in the face of unthinkable violence, scrambling to stay alive and uncaged, and doing the work to protect one another.
This will not come easily, because white supremacy and classism have forced many wedges between our communities. Great harms have been committed and very difficult conversations are needed, but refusing to do that work, in this historical moment, is an abdication of responsibility. It is no exaggeration to say that the whole world is at stake, and we cannot afford to minimize what that demands of us.
This is not to say that we should seek no respite from the messiness and occasional discomfort of large-scale movement work. We all need spaces where we can operate within our comfort zone. Whether these take the shape of a collective, an affinity group, a processing space, a caucus, or a group of friends, we need people with whom we can feel fully seen and heard and with whose values we feel deeply aligned. In such a violent and oppressive world, we are all entitled to some amount of sanctuary. Many organizers have tight-knit political homes, sometimes grounded in shared identity, in addition to participating in broader organizing efforts.
But broader movements are struggles, not sanctuaries. They are full of contradiction and challenges we may feel unprepared for.
Effective organizers operate beyond the bounds of their comfort zones, moving into what we might call their “stretch zone,” when necessary. No one has to be able to work with everyone, but how far beyond the bounds of easy agreement can you reach? How much empathy can you extend to people who do not fully understand your identity or experience or who have not had the same access to liberatory ideas? How much discomfort can you navigate for what you believe is truly at stake?
These are not questions anyone can answer for you, as we must all make autonomous choices about who we connect and build with, but if we do not challenge ourselves to navigate some amount of discomfort, our political reach will have terminal limits. To expand the practice of our politics in the world, we have to be able to organize outside of our comfort zones. People whose words and ideas don’t yet align with our own often need room to grow, and some people grow by building relationships and doing work—often in fumbling and imperfect ways.
Political transformation is not as simple as handing newcomers a new set of politics and telling them, “Yours are bad, use these instead.” Instead, we will sometimes have to accompany people along messy transformational journeys. And we must also remember that no matter how far we have come, we are still on our own messy journeys, and our own transformations will continue as we grow.
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To do this kind of work, a person has to hone multiple skills, including the ability to listen.
When people delve into activism, they often grapple with questions like, “Am I willing to get arrested?” when often the more pressing question for a new activist is, “Am I willing to listen, even when it’s hard?”
For organizer and scholar Ruth Wilson Gilmore, it was her time in Alcoholics Anonymous that helped her transform her practice of listening. “The main thing that I learned,” Gilmore told us, “especially in the first couple years that I was going to meetings, was the beauty of the rule against crosstalk. It was the best thing that ever happened to me, that I couldn’t say shit to anybody. I had to listen, and I had to learn to listen.” The urge to interject or object ran deep for Gilmore. “I’ve always been a nerd, yet I’ve always been a know-it-all,” she told us, “so there’s this tension between my nerdiness that wants to know everything and my know-it-all-ness that wants everybody to know that I know it all already.”
At first, listening did not come easily—or feel particularly productive—to Gilmore. “I would sit in these meetings, and I listened to people talk, and listened to them, and listened to them, and at first I was like, ‘I don’t get this, I don’t get this.’ And so for me in the early days, it was just a performance of words. I mean, my main thing was, ‘I won’t drink when I leave this meeting. I won’t drink, and I won’t use.’”
But over time, Gilmore began to appreciate the role of listening in the group’s collective struggle to avoid drugs and alcohol—even when she did not appreciate what was being said. “I would be getting more and more wound up, because there’d be the sexist guy going on about women and his wife, and then there’d be somebody else talking nonsense about whatever, [but I was] learning to just sit there, and listen, and keep my eye on the prize, which was not just that I wasn’t going to drink but that the only way I could not drink was if all of us didn’t drink.”
Being committed to the sobriety of every person in the room, which meant listening to their story and being invested in their well-being, helped Gilmore develop a deeper practice of patience. “That was kind of this transformation for me that carried into the organizing that I already used to do before I got sober,” she told us.
It is our ability to constructively engage with other people that will ultimately power our efforts. We have to nurture that ability and respect its importance in all of the ways that our society does not. And that skill of constructive engagement starts with listening.
Like so many other aspects of organizing, listening is a practice, and at times, it’s a strategic one.
We might need to hear something true that makes us uncomfortable. Listening deeply makes space for that to happen. But even if the person who’s talking is off base, we can often still learn by listening to them. Why do they feel the way they do? What sources informed or convinced them? What influences them? What strengthens their resolve? What makes them hesitant to get more involved or to engage more boldly? If you are in an organizing space together, how has that issue brought them into a shared space with you despite your differences? What points of agreement might you build upon? What is surprising about them? A good organizer wants to understand these things about the people around them, and you cannot truly understand these things about a person without listening.
Even if the person who’s talking is off base, we can often still learn by listening to them.
Organizers will often repeat the maxim, “We have to meet people where they are at.” It is difficult to meet someone where they’re at when you do not know where they are. Until you have heard someone out, you do not know where they are, so how could you hope to meet them there? Relationships are not built through presumption or through the deployment of tropes or stereotypes. We must understand people as having their own unique experiences, traumas, struggles, ideas, and motivations that will inform how they show up to organizing spaces.
Some task-focused activists brush off activities that involve “talking about our feelings.” This is a common sentiment among bad listeners. The fundamental skill of patiently absorbing another person’s words in a respectful and thoughtful manner is desperately lacking in our society. For this reason, it is folly to expect this skill to manifest itself fully formed when it is most needed, such as in a heated meeting, if we are not building a greater culture of listening in our work.
A group culture that helps participants build their listening skills is an important component of successful organizing. Political education can create opportunities for people to practice listening to one another, without interruption, and interacting meaningfully with what others have contributed. For example, during the Great Depression, communist union organizers in Bessemer, Alabama, developed a practice of devoting thirty minutes of each meeting to political education. For thirty minutes, material would be read aloud—creating space to collectively listen while also allowing members who could not read the opportunity to hear the information. Members would then spend fifteen minutes discussing the material, listening to each other’s thoughts in response to the work.
In organizing, we sometimes expect people, including ourselves, to shed the habits this society has embedded in us through sheer force of will, when in reality we all need practice. Activities that help us hone our practice of listening can make us better organizers, improve our personal relationships, and help us build stronger and longer-lasting movements.
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As we work to build more sustainable movements, we must think hard about our strategies for responding when organizers make mistakes. Social media can often foster a “zero-tolerance” attitude about political ignorance or missteps. Platforms like Twitter have helped facilitate tremendous accomplishments in movement work, but they have also created an arena for political performance and critique that is often divorced from relationship building or strategic aims. For many people, social media is not an organizing tool but a realm of political performance and spectatorship. A trend has emerged in which some organizers will demand performances of solidarity and awareness on social media but then critique or even tear apart those performances when they fall short or are deemed insincere. As with reality television, favorites emerge, and people are sometimes voted off the island.
When the performance of solidarity via the replication of the right words or slogans becomes our central focus, it’s not surprising that responses might read as empty or even insincere. Sloganizing is not organizing, and paying righteous lip service to a cause, in the preferred language of the moment, does not empty any cages or transform anyone’s material conditions. Rather than fixating on the grammar of people’s politics, we organizers must ask ourselves what we want people to do.
When debates arise around language, we must also understand the extent to which the language of dissent and liberation has shifted over time. The terms and jargon we use today do not represent an “arrival” at the “correct” words that were always out there, waiting to be found, while our predecessors flailed about in search of them. The language we uplift in movements today represents an unending process of grappling—a search for words that embody the experiences of oppressed people in relation to their history, their current conditions, and the culture they are presently experiencing. Policing language, as though our phrasing is written in law, misunderstands that pursuit and the purpose it serves. If these words merely exist to divide us into categories—those who can properly discuss ideas and those who cannot—what is their value in the pursuit of liberation?
While it is important to trouble terminology and to engage with its evolution, the mastery of language does not spur systemic change or alter anyone’s material conditions. The concept of “allyship,” for example, is often grounded in presentation rather than substantive action. Similarly, people who believe they are “good people” often view goodness as a fixed identity, evidenced by their expressed feelings about injustice rather than a set of practices or actions. Goodness, to them, is a designation to be defended rather than something that they seek to generate in the world in concert with other people. Mainstream liberals often fall prey to this line of thinking because liberal politics play very heavily into political identity as being determinant of whether a person is good or bad (Democrats are good, Republicans bad). But the left can fall into its own version of this trap by treating politics as a test of how well we can perform language or recite ideas.
Our movements are not driven by getting the words just right. They are driven by the goal of enacting change through collective struggle as we endeavor to both understand ideas and turn them into action. Fumbling is inevitable, but as Gilmore tells us, “practice makes different.”
Dixon emphasizes that people will show up imperfectly and that organizers have to anticipate that mistakes and harm will happen. “I worry we’re creating a culture now where people are so afraid to make mistakes,” she told us. “They’re afraid to not have the analysis before they open their mouth. The bonds that I’m really trying to build within organizing are the bonds where we can divulge the things that we are nervous about, or ashamed of, or the things we need to learn, all of those areas, because that’s when I know we’re building the kind of intimacy that takes care of each other around heightened threats.”
Dixon points out that when trust is lost, organizing not only becomes more difficult, but it also becomes more vulnerable to surveillance and infiltration: “A huge piece of COINTELPRO was around seeding distrust.” Therefore, she says, a key part of organizing is building bonds of trust, and that can only happen within a context where people are allowed to be vulnerable and make mistakes.
Learning and growing in front of other people can be embarrassing, and even intimidating, particularly for people who have been put down or made to feel diminished in the past. Even seasoned organizers like Dixon often worry about derailing their work with a verbal misstep. “I have a small crew of other organizers where I think our text thread is mostly questions we are afraid to ask publicly,” she acknowledged. “It’s our own little political education circle, where we ask, ‘What does this mean?’ Or, ‘Is this fucked up?’ Or, ‘What is the right way to say this? Because I don’t think this is right.’” Dixon says that she believes “everyone needs that text thread,” but she also hopes that more of our movement spaces can operate in the same spirit and offer opportunities for people to “feel safe in their process of transforming.”
Creating trust-based movement spaces also puts us in a better place to confront harm and conflict, Dixon says.
“The biggest part of the work is how we maintain relationships while navigating harm,” she told us. “Because that’s the thing, that will break your group. That’ll break any project.” Dixon stresses the importance of conflict resolution and accountability mechanisms within groups—that is, group- or community-based methods of confronting harm, such as peace circles and transformative justice. But she also reminds us that in order for accountability mechanisms to serve their purpose, people need room and opportunities to grow. “People need to build skills and mechanisms to navigate conflict. Sometimes we’re not apologizing. Sometimes we’re not accountable. Sometimes we have done harmful things. Sometimes we’re doing things we were never told go against the norms [of the group] and then are being held accountable.”
In an organizing space, accountability should not be about policing or punishment, but our punitive impulses can sometimes twist accountability mechanisms into those shapes. It’s easy to forget how imperfectly we ourselves have shown up in movement spaces and throughout our lives. Sometimes our aggravation with others is rooted in pain or trauma we have experienced; sometimes it is rooted in our uneasiness about things we may have said or done that were equally upsetting because we did not always know what we know now. And regardless of how much we believe we have learned, as the saying goes, we don’t know what we don’t know. Many of us would not be in this work today if someone along the way had not been patient with us.
Even if we never develop a sense of mutual respect and understanding, or even come to like the people we’re working with, we can still build power with them. In many cases, we must. After all, the whole world is at stake. We must ask ourselves, how much discomfort is the whole world worth?"]]>solidarity 2023 activism organizing kellyhayes mariamekaba listening language patience politics affinity difference behavior whitesupremacy generations age race racism diversity discomfort offense growth scale socialmedia tolerance purity puritytests education learning understanding transformation online internet trust conflict transformativejustice justice socialjustice accountability cointelpro surveillance infiltration distrust fear silence allyship action goodness liberalism identity democrats republicans left leftism performance dissent liberation jargon policing division divisiveness sloganizing spectatorship twitter politcalperformance performativepolitics relationships groups communism history society practice praxis ruthwilsongilmore crosstalk discourse conversation alcoholicsanonymous struggle strategy canon groupculture culture movements change changemaking ejerisdixon class classism lcdhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c13f1560a59c/How Can the Left Solve the Climate Crisis? - YouTube2023-07-16T20:23:09+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuseHXkMjmM
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https://www.versobooks.com/books/3810-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal
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https://www.jacobinmag.com/2013/04/against-the-law/
robertogrecomeznaqato kareemrabie 2013 palestine istrael law legal internationallaw rights us policy centrism strategy left war imperialism settlercolonialism occupation ows occupywallstreet bds colonialism democracy grassroots zionism nationalismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d25b346d8ade/Craig Oldham on Twitter: "Things I’d like to write about and debate with the design industry 🧵" / Twitter2021-07-24T16:25:27+00:00
https://mobile.twitter.com/OfficeOfCraig/status/1418486531115859969
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/27/us/politics/bernie-sanders-mayor-burlington-vt.html
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https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-when-the-hero-is-the-problem/
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https://teachersgoinggradeless.com/2018/02/24/castles-in-air/
robertogrecoToday, we do not deem ourselves subjugated subjects, but rather projects: always refashioning and reinventing ourselves. A sense of freedom attends passing from the state of subject to that of project. All the same, this projection amounts to a form of compulsion and constraint — indeed, to a more efficient kind of subjectification and subjugation. As a project deeming itself free of external and alien limitations, the I is now subjugating itself to internal limitations and self-constraints, which are taking the form of compulsive achievement and optimization.
One doesn’t have to look too far to find the rhetoric of “harnessing student passion” and “self-regulated learners” to understand the paradoxical truth of this statement. This vision of education, in addition to constituting a new strategy of control, also undermines any sense of classrooms as communities of care and locations of resistance.
@hhschiaravalli:
A5. Watch out for our tendency to lionize those who peddle extreme personalization, individual passion, entrepreneurial mindsets. So many of these undermine any sense of collective identity, responsibility, solidarity #tg2chat
Clearly, not all intrinsic or extrinsic motivation is created equal. Perhaps instead of framing the issue in these terms, we should see it as a question of commitment or capitulation.
Commitment entails a robust willingness to construct change around what Gert Biesta describes as fundamental questions of “content, purpose, and relationship.” It requires that we find ways to better communicate and support student learning, produce more equitable results, and, yes, sometimes shield students from outside influences. Contrary to the soaring rhetoric of intrinsic motivation, none of this will happen by itself.
Capitulation means shirking this responsibility, submerging it in the reductive comfort of numbers or in neoliberal notions of autonomy.
Framing going gradeless through the lens of extrinsic versus intrinsic motivation, then, is not only misleading and limited, it’s harmful. No teacher — gradeless or otherwise — can avoid the task of finding humane ways to leverage each of these in the service of greater goals. Even if we could, there are other interests, much more powerful, much more entrenched, and much better funded than us always ready to rush into that vacuum.
To resist these forces, we will need to use everything in our power to find and imagine new structures and strategies, building our castles in air on firm foundations."]]>grades grading equity morivation intrinsicmotivation extrinsicmotivation measurement schools schooling learning howwelearn socialjustice neoliberalism arthurchiaravalli subjectivity objectivity systemsthinking education unschooling deschooling assessment accountability subjectification subjugation achievement optimization efficiency tests testing standardization control teaching howweteach 2018 resistance gertbiesta capitulation responsibility structure strategy pedagogy gpa ranking sherrispelic byung-chulhan compulsion constraint self-regulation passion identity solidarity personalization collectivism inequalityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:84f58c5a5a76/Frances Whitehead2014-10-14T19:29:32+00:00
http://www.franceswhitehead.com/
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http://colleendilen.com/2014/08/13/why-talking-about-the-future-of-museums-may-be-holding-museums-back/
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http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/06/23/140623fa_fact_lepore?currentPage=all
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFtBVqI2NBs
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http://www.disambiguity.com/everyone-is-doing-strategy-now/
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http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2014/05/essay-designing-finnishness-for-out-of-the-blue-gestalten.html
robertogreco"The press conference is over, and in comes Jari Litmanen, from behind the door. And I looked at his face and I looked at his eyes, and I recognised something in those eyes. And I thought, this is a man with a great willpower. Because he was not shy, not timid, but he was modest. He is not a man who will raise his voice, or bang with his fist on the table and say, ‘We do it this way.’ No, he was more of a diplomat, not wanting to be a leader, but being a leader." [Former AFC Ajax team manager David Endt, on legendary Finnish footballer Jari Litmanen]
Finland has proven that it can take care of itself locally and globally. At home, its sheer existence is a tribute to fortitude, guile and determination, never mind the extent to which it has lately thrived. Globally, through Nokia, Kone, Rovio and others, through its diplomatic and political leadership, and through its design scene in general, it has punched well above its weight. Having been a reluctant leader, like Litmanen, will Finland once again step up to help define a new age, a post-industrial or re-industrial age? Unlike 1917, there are few obvious external drivers to force Finns to define Finnishness. So where will the desire for change come from?
Finland, and Finnishness, is not immune to the problems facing other European countries; the Eurocrisis, domestic xenophobia, industrial strife. Challenging these is difficult for an engineering culture not yet used to working with uncertainty, and in collaboration.
That requires this sense of openness to ambiguity, to non-planning, which is quite unlike the traditional mode of Finnishness. And yet there are also valuable cues in Finnishness, such as in the design—or undesign, as Leonard Koren would have it—of Finnish sauna culture.
"Making nature really means letting nature happen, since nature, the ultimate master of interactive complexity, is organized along principles too inscrutable for us to make from scratch. … Extraordinary baths … are created by natural geologic processes or by composers of sensory stimulation working in an intuitive, poetic, open-minded—undesign—manner." (Koren, ibid.)
Equally, the päiväkoti day-care system demonstrates a learning environment built with an agile structure that can follow where children wish to lead. The role of expertise—and every teacher in Finnish education is a highly-qualified expert—is not to control or enforce a national curriculum, but to react, shape, nurture and inspire. As such it could be a blueprint not only for education generally, but also for developing a culture comfortable with divergent learning, with exploration and experiment, with a broader social and emotional range, and with ambiguity.
Chess grandmaster Savielly Tartakower once said “Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do, strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.” Indeed, Finland's early development was driven by tactics—survival, consolidation and then growth in the face of a clear set of "things to do"; defeat the conditions, resist the neighbours, rebuild after war.
With that, came success, comfort and then perhaps the inevitable lack of drive. The country is relatively well off and stable, and perhaps a little complacent given the recent accolades.
Design in recent years has seen a shift towards the ephemeral and social—interaction design, service design, user experience design, strategic design and so on. Conversely, there has been a return to the physical, albeit altered and transformed by that new modernity, with that possibility of newly hybrid “things”: digital/physical hybrids possessing a familiar materiality yet allied with responsiveness, awareness, and character by virtue of having the internet embedded within. With its strong technical research sector, and expertise in both materials and software, Finland is well-placed. Connect the power of its nascent nanotech research sector—interestingly, derived from its expertise with wood—to a richer Finnish design culture capable of sketching social objects, social services and social spaces and its potential becomes tangible, just as with the 1930s modernism that fused the science and engineering of the day with design in order to produce Artek.
Finnish design could be stretched to encompass these new directions, the aforementioned reversals towards openness, ambiguity, sociality, flexibility and softness. Given that unique DNA of Finnishness — both designed and undesigned, both old and young—Finland is at an interesting juncture.
The next phase, then, is knowing what to do, despite the appearance of not having anything to do.
Buckminster Fuller, a guest at Sitra's first design-led event at Helsinki’s Suomenlinna island fortress in 1968, once said “the best way to predict the future is to design it.” Finland has done this once before; it may be that now is exactly the right time to do it again."]]>finland 2014 design danhill cityofsound sitra buckminsterfuller education strategy culture exploration experimentation ambiguity emergentcurriculumeurope undesign leonardkoren nature complexity simplicity davidendt jarilitmanen unproduct efficiency inefficiency clarity purity small slow sisu solitude silence barnraising helsinkihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7147498e00d9/Kokoro & Moi – Your ninjas on the ceiling2014-05-06T19:31:21+00:00
http://www.kokoromoi.com/
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http://roryhyde.com/blog/?p=614
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https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2013/12/06/be-nelson-mandela/
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http://issuu.com/forwardretreat/docs/digest/21
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http://www.disambiguity.com/design-is-the-easy-part/
robertogrecoleisareichelt design systemsthinking systems politics organizations disruption 2013 peterdrucker change gamechanging egos organzationalchange oganizations bureaucracy culture transitions strategyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2afc14a68d23/Evan Williams's Advice to Start-Ups: Don't Be Too Data-Driven - Liz Gannes - News - AllThingsD2012-12-26T01:46:40+00:00
http://allthingsd.com/20121221/evan-williamss-advice-to-start-ups-dont-be-too-data-driven/
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http://www.thebrooklynstrategist.com/
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http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/08/the_disciplined_pursuit_of_less.html
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http://cdixon.org/2012/07/24/buzzfeeds-strategy/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/jun/12/the-question-position-possession-tiki-taka
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http://qeta.eu/
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http://www.fastcompany.com/1810674/culture-eats-strategy-for-lunch
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http://www.aiga.org/video-pivot-2011-casey/
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http://www.theamericancrawl.com/?p=368
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http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6948865/speed-chess
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[Relates, from 2010: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/magazine/05Football-t.html?pagewanted=all ]]]>sports football collegefootball via:lukeneff 2011 mainemaritimeacademy cv chuckklosterman tactics strategy amherst oregon ncaahttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:62203a62c6d5/InfraNet Lab » Blog Archive » Infrastructural Opportunism, A Manifesto2011-06-13T03:13:43+00:00
http://infranetlab.org/blog/2011/02/infrastructural-opportunism-a-manifesto/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_de_Certeau
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Perhaps the most influential aspect of TPoEL has emerged from scholarly interest in Certeau’s distinction btwn the concepts of strategy & tactics. Certeau links "strategies" w/ institutions & structures of power who are the "producers", while individuals are "consumers" acting in environments defined by strategies by using "tactics"."]]>art culture history urbanism micheldecerteau via:joguldi via:steelemaley research strategy strategies tactics thepracticeofeverydaylife power religion colonialism grids cities urban livinghttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ba97abeb2ef3/Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement (Paperback) - Routledge2011-02-28T06:47:29+00:00
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415476188/
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http://www.asymco.com/2011/02/21/nokias-burning-ships-strategy/
robertogrecomicrosoft nokia asymco mobile strategy leadership management disruption 2011 symbian administrationhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:644f06c11409/Seth's Blog: A culture of testing [Adapted version by Josie Holford: http://www.pdscompasspoint.com/a-culture-of-testing]2011-01-16T07:20:40+00:00
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/01/a-culture-of-testing.html
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http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/2010/08/05/scaling-startups/
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http://argoproject.org/blog/?p=287
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http://www.economist.com/node/16741177?story_id=16741177
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http://www.sitra.fi/en/
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Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund is an independent public fund which under the supervision of the Finnish Parliament promotes the welfare of Finnish society. Sitra’s responsibilities have been stipulated in law.
Since its establishment, Sitra’s duty has been to promote stable and balanced development in Finland, the qualitative and quantitative growth of its economy and its international competitiveness and co-operation. Our operations are governed by a vision of a successful and skilled Finland. We have always approached our operations with strong belief in the future and in the ability of the latest technology to generate well-being.
Promoting systemic changes as a visionary and an enabler"]]>finland design architecture innovation urbanism strategy government helsinki organizations future futures sustainability well-beinghttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f2c2f3086c42/What The Fuck Is My Social Media Strategy? [Generates buzzwordy strategy statements]2010-08-03T01:49:13+00:00
http://whatthefuckismysocialmediastrategy.com/index.php
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http://blog.urgentevoke.net/2010/07/26/what-went-right-what-went-wrong-lessons-from-season-1-evoke1/
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http://designswarm.com/blog/2010/07/24/thoughts-on-corporate-innovation/
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http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html
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http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2010/07/method-designing.html
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http://euansemple.squarespace.com/theobvious/2010/6/28/unlearning.html
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http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2010/06/another-nail-in-the-pageview-coffin
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http://www.paulgraham.com/organic.html
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http://blogs.hbr.org/haque/2010/04/from_social_media_to_social_strategy.html
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http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04/the-collapse-of-complex-business-models/
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http://www.vimeo.com/9290664
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http://blogs.hbr.org/haque/2010/02/the_wisdom_planifesto.html
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http://www.thedailymaverick.co.za/article/2010-02-15-youtube-turns-five-hyperspaces-interweb-into-the-future
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http://blogs.hbr.org/haque/2010/01/the_scale_every_business_needs.html
robertogrecoumairhaque future business capitalism entrepreneurship competition strategy scale passion scalability ambition gamechanging worldchanging global life-alteringhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:266d45f2935f/Why Tumblr is kicking Posterous’s ass « PEG on Tech2010-01-20T04:07:41+00:00
http://pegontech.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/why-tumblr-posterous-ass/
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http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/the-obama-disconnect
robertogrecovia:preoccupations technology internet barackobama elections 2009 critique corporations hypocrisy grassroots disappointment strategy corruption finance 2008 activism collaboration banking ethics media democracy history politics us commentaryhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a19d04e55dbe/The Question: How will football tactics develop over the next decade? | Jonathan Wilson | Sport | guardian.co.uk2009-12-27T11:26:48+00:00
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2009/dec/23/the-question-football-tactics-develop-decade
robertogrecofootball strategy evolution future rules change sportshttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:05ff953d921f/The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine2009-12-16T06:25:35+00:00
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/magazine/17-09/ff_goodenough?currentPage=all
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http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque/2009/11/whats_your_strategy_for_the_ne.html
robertogrecofuture economics umairhaque business china us strategy growth bailouts crisis 2009 peakdilbert productivity wealth efficiency katrinamerica skyhooks cranes elinorostrom gamechanging decline ageofdecline innovationhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a6cde4bad6ee/Why Design Thinking Won't Save You - Peter Merholz - HarvardBusiness.org2009-11-20T09:21:38+00:00
http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/merholz/2009/10/why-design-thinking-wont-save.html
robertogrecoadaptivepath anthropology complexity business creativity designthinking thinking leadership innovation critique collaboration 2009 design interdisciplinary multidisciplinary crossdisciplinary crosspollination strategy administration tunnelvision falsedichotomies diversity diversificationhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6165ec461418/Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death?2009-11-05T04:56:08+00:00
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20091101/does-slow-growth-equal-slow-death.html?partner=fogcreek
robertogrecoentrepreneurship management business joelspolsky entrepreneur software strategy growth small risk dominancehttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9ef1d53db40f/The Way I Work: Jason Fried of 37Signals2009-11-05T04:50:32+00:00
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20091101/the-way-i-work-jason-fried-of-37signals.html
robertogreco37signals productivity planning collaboration entrepreneurship strategy jasonfried business work administration leadership management tcsnmy meetings complaints bloat featurecreep features lcprojecthttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8bbb81b0a873/Is Your Business Useless? - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org2009-10-30T23:47:20+00:00
http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque/2009/10/how_useless_is_your_business.html
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http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2009/10/23/innovation-and-design/
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http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/10/apparent-risk-and-actual-risk.html
robertogrecorisk tcsnmy careers failure sethgodin business strategy life psychologyhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:270a1bfeb758/Seth's Blog: The problem with non2009-09-28T07:04:35+00:00
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/09/the-problem-with-non.html
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http://berglondon.com/blog/2009/09/11/be-selective-with-your-innovation/
robertogrecostrategy ux gamedesign mattwebb pmog decisionmaking harddecisions killingaprojecthttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:59d06bb183d9/Ten Characteristics of Great Companies2009-09-07T09:02:49+00:00
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/09/ten-characteristics-of-great-companies.html
robertogrecobusiness innovation fredwilson marketing startups management leadership entrepreneurship success strategy tips tcsnmy administrationhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3ecffca610aa/Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess2009-08-27T05:08:29+00:00
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/17-09/ff_craigslist?currentPage=all
robertogrecovia:kottke meetings entrepreneurship community business socialmedia management craignewmark craigslist startup strategy advertising technology internet culture web social journalismhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:01842580c68f/Reference Guide on our Freedom & Responsibility Culture [from Netfilx] [see also views, many negative, from employees: http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Netflix-Reviews-E11891.htm]2009-08-06T03:57:38+00:00
http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664
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